Medieval warfare was not always divided strictly along religious lines. Christian soldiers sometimes fought in the service of Muslim rulers, driven by pay, politics, or survival. This animated history ...

The Cathars were peaceful dualist Christians who rejected church wealth, violence, and hierarchy. They allowed women to ...

Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people from different social groups in medieval Cambridge ate markedly different ...

Castle Otttis stands majestically against the Florida sky, its stone towers and medieval silhouette creating a moment of ...

Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

More than 500 years ago, while a medieval scribe was carefully copying a religious manuscript by hand, a cat walked across the pages while the ink was still ...

For Florida residents, Castle Otttis offers something particularly special—a local treasure that many tourists never discover ...

Anhalt, Ulf Petzschmann During routine archaeological surveys conducted ahead of wind-turbine construction in central Germany ...

On the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, his body will be displayed ...

Medieval saints often earned authority not by healing people, but by restoring fields, animals, and land that kept rural ...

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links. As dusk settles over Bharathapuzha in Thirunavaya, the ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.